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Lena Dunham's Playboy Debut Is Here
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 14, 2013
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Lena Dunham sat down with Playboy recently (presumably fully-clothed, though she did get an I Posed t-shirt) to discuss everything from the millennial generation to sex on New York City drainpipes to her least favorite interview question: “Why are you naked on TV so much?”
Dunham also discussed New York City, and having created a fairly realistic snapshot of a certain part of Brooklyn on Girls (which we discussed with her last year), she gets into how her home-borough is portrayed on other shows.
Girls is set in Brooklyn. What does the media get wrong about New York’s hippest borough?
I don’t live in the same Brooklyn neighborhood as my characters; mine [Brooklyn Heights] is slightly more old-people-y. But I’m a Brooklyn girl and love it. The first time I watched 2 Broke Girls, another Brooklyn show, I liked it, but there were people in Williamsburg saying, “You can’t go out in that jacket in Brooklyn. You’re going to get robbed!” Many parts of Brooklyn are tony suburbs of Manhattan, but the most interesting thing is the push-pull and the collision of young meets old, historic meets new. Most people don’t look at that. Also, not everyone has a handlebar mustache.
You can read the full interview here.
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